Queer Things about EgyptHurst & blackett, Limited, 1911 - 428 pages This book is filled with varied information about Egypt. Everything is touched upon—the people, their customs, and manner of writing English, descriptions of scenery, history and social conditions—in the manner of a well informed traveler willing to tell all he knows. 1t is an entertaining book, and one which a visitor to Egypt could hardly afford to be without, especially the seekers of recreation in perusing passages of sprightly talk about things new and old, maintained by a man who is likely to have cheered many a table and fireside by his traveler's tales. |
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Page 26
... camels carrying stones for building . work as post man or clean man , and ask. EGYPTIAN WOMAN WITH HER SHAWL OVER THE BURDEN ON HER HEAD TO SHIELD HER FROM THE FIERCE SUN . Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey . [ p . 27.
... camels carrying stones for building . work as post man or clean man , and ask. EGYPTIAN WOMAN WITH HER SHAWL OVER THE BURDEN ON HER HEAD TO SHIELD HER FROM THE FIERCE SUN . Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey . [ p . 27.
Page 68
... camel on the rump and knocked it round . The shock dragged the other camels into collision , and they were all killed except one , including the camel - driver . Another time there was a string of camels laden with petroleum walking ...
... camel on the rump and knocked it round . The shock dragged the other camels into collision , and they were all killed except one , including the camel - driver . Another time there was a string of camels laden with petroleum walking ...
Page 68
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. A TYPICAL CAMEL GROUP . Arab and his child riding along the road from Karnak to Luxor . [ p . 68 A GYASSA SAILING UP THE NILE . [ p .
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. A TYPICAL CAMEL GROUP . Arab and his child riding along the road from Karnak to Luxor . [ p . 68 A GYASSA SAILING UP THE NILE . [ p .
Page 93
... and I noticed that the driver looked absolutely crushed . " What did you say to him , Lavercombe ? " I asked . " Oh , nothing . I just told him that the only decent thing THE CAMEL MARKET AT GIZEH . Desert Arabs in charge 94.
... and I noticed that the driver looked absolutely crushed . " What did you say to him , Lavercombe ? " I asked . " Oh , nothing . I just told him that the only decent thing THE CAMEL MARKET AT GIZEH . Desert Arabs in charge 94.
Page 93
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. THE CAMEL MARKET AT GIZEH . Desert Arabs in charge . [ P. 94 Egyptians are about his cab was its beautiful driver .
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. THE CAMEL MARKET AT GIZEH . Desert Arabs in charge . [ P. 94 Egyptians are about his cab was its beautiful driver .
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Abûkir Abydos Agenoria Alexandria ancient ancient Egypt ANGELES antique Antony Arab asked Assuan bakshish bank bazar beautiful Berberine blue built Cæsar Cairo CALIFORN called camels canal Cataract Hotel charming Cleopatra colonnades colour columns cook Cook's Coptic dahabeah Damietta Denderah Der-el-Bahari desert donkey donkey-boys dragoman Edfu Egyptian English Fayum feet fellahin French galabeah garden Greek humours hundred Italian Joseph Julius Cæsar Karnak Khedive King ladies lake land LIBRARY live look Luxor mediæval Mehemet Ali meshrebiya miles minarets Mohammed Mohammedan mosque mummy native never night Nile oasis Osiris palace palm groves Pasha Pharaohs photographs piastres picturesque police Ptolemies pylon railway Rameses Ramidge rich riding river Roman roof Rosetta round ruins sand servants shillings side steamer Sudan suffragi tarbooshes temple Thebes thing tombs took tourists Upper Egypt village walls women